Separately controlled relaxation oscillator



Feb. 14, 1939. Q s v ET AL 2,146,739

SEPARATELY CONTROLLED RELAXATION OSCILLATOR Filed Oct. 23, 1933 f 3 E 1 l M F/FL QUEA C'Y SOURQE' T .L o 7 Patented Feb. 14, 1939 I 2,146,769

UNITED STATES PATENT QFFIQE SEPARATELY CONTROLLED RELAXATION OSCILLATOR Otto Schriever and Wolfgang Federmann, Berlin, Germany, assignors to Telcfunken Gesellschaft fiir Drahtlose Telegraphic m. b. H., Berlin, Germany, a corporation of Germany Application October 23, 1933, Serial No. 694,758 In Germany November 8, 1932 1 Claim. (Cl. 250-36) The use of the Braun tube as curve recorder c1e of the control oscillation. In accordance or as television receiver with intensity control with the present invention the voltage impulses of the cathode ray presupposes a time proporthus produced are impressed upon the grid of a tional deviation of the luminous spot in one or tube t which is blocked when inactive and serves 5 two coordinates and a return of the same into as a discharge tube for the condenser 5. The 5 the original position possibly without loss of charging of condenser 5 is effected by means of time. It is known that it is ordinarily endeava voltage source 6 across a suitable resistance 1 ored to attain this course of movement by means which may consist of an ohmic resistance, the of so-called relaxation oscillations. An ideal reanode-cathode path of an electron tube, a glow 10 laxation oscillation has the shape shown in Figlamp, a photo-cell or other suitable element. 10 ure 1; a condenser load increases from zero along The functioning of the arrangement, it will be a linear course in proportion with time until it seen, is such that the charge of the condenser reaches a maximum value V in order to suddenoccurs while the parallel tube 4 is in the blocked ly drop back to zero and to increase anew. stage, while the discharge takes place during the In the known circuits for the production of very short duration of the separately excited 15 relaxation oscillations, the discharge of a convoltage peak. It is a particular characteristic denser has a principal relationship with its feature of the present circuit, that in the abcharge, namely, in that the discharge is released sence of the controlling impulses the condenser by means of a tube feed back circuit or a glow is charged only up to the voltage of battery 6,

discharge path whereby this release occurs auwithout a discharge taking place. Contrary to 20 tomatically by the charge voltage as soon as the this mode of operation, however, in the well latter has reached a predetermin d value. The known automatic relaxation discharges which disadvantage of such circuit is to be seen in are synchronized by means of a control frequenthe fact that the tube properties affect essency, the periodic action continues, even in the tially the curve shape and frequency thus making absence f con r ll ng impulses, with any non- 25 it difficult to realize a frequency constancy with related natural frequency.

which it may be safely operated. The production of the control oscillation ap- To more fully describe and explain our inplied to the terminals I, 2, can be carried out in vention, refer to the drawing of which: any suitable well known manner such as by Fig. 1 shows the wave form produced by the means Of a motor driven A- C- e, ght 30 relaxation oscillator; siren, tuning fork generator, pendulum trans- Fig. 2 shows a circuit diagram of the emf rm r, tube r or or the like. bodiment of the invention; and Although it is possible to obtain a great con- Fig. 3 shows a modification of the invention. n y f frequency r such n r r yet it The present invention avoids these difficulties s o advantage to S0 arrange the circuit that in that the discharge is released by an aut matithe frequency of the control oscillations follows cal and. periodical oscillation without involving automatically eventual f eq cy f c uations of a principal relationship, with the charge voltthe oscillation to be registered (whether of the age. Figure 2 explains the principle of the incurve to be recorded by t e sc ograph or of vention. An independently produced sinusoidal the line r q y o e television picture re- 40 or approximately sinusoidal oscillation whose ceived.). This is accomplished in accordance frequency is equal to the desired relaxation frewith the invention in app y he above oscilquency, is applied to points I, 2 of a, self-induclation to the local standard frequency generator tance with iron core 3, which is so dimensioned in S ch manner t t it etains its synchronism that at the prevailing amperage, iron saturation in the manner shown in Fig. 3. This can be car- 45 exists during the greater part of each half cyried out in any desired way, for example, in the ole. The voltage at the terminals of the iron case of a tube generator by utilizing the so-called choke then presents, as is known, steep peaks drag effect, in the case of the pendulum transduring the passage of the current through zero, former and the tuning fork by means of elecwhile this voltage remains negligibly small in tro-magnetic influence upon the oscillating time, 50 comparison with these voltage peaks during the Fig. 3 represents a twin grid tube generator further course of each half cycle. In suitably adapted to produce approximately sinuous oscilchoosing the alternating current amperage the lations. The frequency of these oscillations is duration of such voltage impulse can be made to chosen equal to the desired relaxation wave freamount to only a small fraction of the entire cyquency. Between the cathode and the grid which 55,

is adjacent to the cathode, is connected the grid circuit of the circuit arrangement capable of selfoscillation (a1) and which is in regenerative coupling relation with the tuned platecircuit (112). The ensuing oscillations are derived across terminals I and 2 through the circuit (b). The roughly, sinuous oscillations are thereupon fed to a choke coil 3 (Fig. 2). a self-excited generator is not suificiently constant and stable to be utilized for picture telegraphic work, the generator additionally is controlled by the aid of a synchronizing wave transmitted from a remote point (transmitter end), and these synchronizing alternating voltages by way of filter and biasing-voltage circuit schemes are impressed upon the generator between cathode and the grid, which is adjacent to'the plate (circuit c). What is utilized in this scheme is the so-called entrainment or coherence phenomenon, and as a result the frequency generated in the generator will always coincide with the synchronizing frequency.

In television reception the subject matter of Inasmuch as the frequency of condenser through the theinvention may, if desired, be used for the line frequency as well as for the picture frequency.

The discharge tube 4 of Figure 2 may be a. high or several grids, a thythe like.

vacuum tube with one ratron, a flow relay or a We claim:

A relaxation oscillation generator comprising a discharge path including an electron discharge device having an anode, cathode and control electrode, a condenser in circuit with said anode and cathode, a source of direct current potential in shunt with said condenser for charging said condenser, said source having a potential value less than that necessary to initiate discharging of the discharge path, a semisaturated iron core inductance coil connected to said control electrode and cathode, and a source of control sinusoidal oscillations connected to said coil for lowering the point at which the discharge of the condenser is initiated.

OTTO SCI-IRIEVER. WOLFGANG FEDERMANN. 

